Hey, I’m Callum Harrod. I design and develop stuff.

I’ve got over 10 years of experience working in design, development, and more for the web. When I’m not working at Acquia, I’m tinkering with my side projects.

The Acquia unification project

An Acquia AI Project

Drupal Canvas

Union Roasted Coffee

Some side projects

Experience

My background is a mixture of design and development, used to create wonderful digital experiences.

Senior Product Designer

Acquia /1 year

This is the latest move in my eclectic career. I joined the design team after creating a design system. Since then I’ve been working on the largest initiative for Drupal in years; Drupal Canvas. I’ve also started working on a unified AI platform to bring all of our products together, with a sprinkling of AI to make it much more powerful.

Senior Software Engineer

Acquia / 6 years, 3 Months

There's way more to this story than what I'm about to write. For this role I initially joined as 'Head of training' for a low-code site building tool in Drupal. But this was for the startup that was acquired by Acquia. In this role I've designed websites, designed new features for our product, pitched to and trained customers, taught design systems, and worked as part of a two man team to migrate a 150k line of code Angular app to React.

There's also been a couple of insane stories like building a project over a weekend that lead to us being acquired. Building an entire website on stage at Acquia Engage. Or recording me building an entire website in a day to land a new customer.

Front-end Web Designer

We Make Websites / 4 Months

Okay, it may look like I've not stuck at this job long, but it didn't stop me having a brilliant impact. In this job I worked on multiple Shopify websites. I helped design new features, and I worked on developing them too. I designed one of my favourite sites I've ever worked on and before leaving I was awarded with employee of the month (I still have the trophy to prove it).

UI/UX Designer & Developer

Pragmatic / 1 year, 11 Months

I moved to this company originally as a developer. I was experience with WordPress, and I helped create some brilliant websites using PHP, Advanced Custom Fields, and good ol' front-end development. After for doing this for around a year, I moved to the design team, as I worked with design outside of my day job. From here I worked with the likes of Bacardi on some fundamental UX work, still used today on all of their websites.

Web Developer

UnitedUS / 6 years, 3 Months

I moved from engineering to the product design team as a Senior Product Designer. In this role I've worked on leading the design for the future editing experience of Drupal. The latest piece of work that I've been involved with, is an AI interface to allow our customers to use all o